Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-09
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From l.. 2. McCarty, the editor and
proprietor, San Francisco, we have re-
ceived " The Statistician for 1887. 1t con-
tinues to improve with each issue. Mr..
McCarty is one of the statisticians who gets
out of the groove and engages in new de-
partures for improvement of the work in
hand. 1.-The Statistician " for 1887 en-
braces such an endless variety of matter
that to attempt to recite even the chief feat
ures within the limits of this notice is use
less. Its 648 pages are COMP tIy loaded with
useful information upon subjects financial.
governmental, biographical, historical,
directory and curious-topics some of
which the busy man needs information
upon every day of his life. But the means
must be convenient, easily employed, and
the method of imparting brief, clear and
direct. These are the distinguishing feat
ures of "The Statistician." 1t is book
which since its inception, nearly dozen
years ago, we have uniformly commended.
We have always found it reliable, and the
most convenient reference book of all the
many to which we have occasion to refer.
We can scarcely understand how business
men can afford to do without this compre-
hensive little volume.
The !" North American Review" for
April 6 East Fourteenth street, New York;
dluOiiS OtHCl DdpCl0 OBCh
Nominations and Free Elections" by Da-
yid Dudley Field; "Why Am | Congre-
gationalist2n by Gail Hamilton Grant
and Matthew Arnold" by General Fry
"War Letters u (to General Sherman), by
General Braxton Bragg; Profit Sharing"
BY MO. Nelson: SThe Transportation
Problem,p by John c. WEIGH; "A Chap
lain's Record REV. Henry Ward
Beecher), by Colonel David E. Austin
" Economic Optimism" by Datus C. Smith;
Storm Effects on Mentality" by George
Sand; " Uniform Marriage and Divorce
Laws" by Thomas NJ. North " Don Piatt
on Arthur Richmond" by l. J. Allen /;
+" Opera, by Dion Boucicault; Meterolog-
ical Predictions" by Felix Oswald; " De-
struction of Art in America" by Rush G.
Hawkins; Letters to James Russell
Lowell" by Arthur Richmond.
The Popular Science Monthly" for
April, edited by W. J. Youmans Cd. Apple
ton & Coz offers nineteen distinct articles
and departments to its readers. DR.. Ham,
mond writes Brain forcing in Childhood;"
NJ G. Valbert of Casper Hauser as a
Delusion y G. P Serviss on Astronomy
with an Opera Glass; DR.. Chaplin on
"Social and Physiological inequality"
DR.. Roose on Infection and Distinction; ;"
f. Weber on Melody in Speech Pro
fessor Huxley on "Scientifc Pseudo
Scientific Realism - DR.. Siemens on The
Scientific Age" and others on interesting
topics The magazine, though by death
deprived of its founder, and one of its
chief editors is up to the high standard it
has maintained so many years.
From C. s. Houghton, bookseller, Sacra-
mento, we have of CasselPs National Lii
brary Series, issued weekly, at 10 cents per
copy, these numbers Life of Lord Henry
Cherbury," by himself; 1.-The Hunchback,"
" The Love Chase, by Sheridan Knowles
&" Crochet Castle" by Thomas Love PEN
cock; Lives of Demosthenes, Cicero,
etc." by Plutarch; Lays of Ancient
Rome" by Macaulay; Sermons on Evil
speaking" . Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1863
1854" 1.-The Tempest We have fire.
alrently had occasion to speak warmly of
this admirable series, by purchase ofwhich
one, for mere song may have at hand a
compact library of choice literature, in ex-
cellent form for preservation.
The English Illustrated Magazine
macmillan & Co., N W is at hand for
April A leading feature is an able paper
entitled "Sheridan and Miss Linley as
Shown in Their Letters" biographical
study, BY Matilda Stoker. The reproduce
ton of old English rhymes continues
with fine outline illustrations. The num-
Der is well balanced between story, song,
poetry, travel and local history.
The Current Chicago continues TO
be an attractive journal OF high literary
excellence, and though it has abandoned
political criticism it has not for that reason
suffered decadence in popular favor.